Media-Insert Communications

Media-Insert Communications

The blog of Media-Insert Communications – featuring freelance P.R. and journalism links to the work of Graham A. Jarvis.

Editing, Journalism, Copywriting, and Public Relations

Category: Insurance/Reinsurance

  • The aim is to use driving and vehicle data to set insurance prices employing its established OnStar service. This is the automaker’s connected-car service, which is installed on all GM vehicles in North America. Customers who sign up, agree to permit their driving habits to be tracked remotely. Drivers who obey speeding limits or avoid…

  • Korea Bizwire said in September 2020 that South Korea’s regulator: “The Financial Supervisory Service announced that the nation’s 12 non-life insurance companies will start selling new insurance products that can cover the risk related to accidents involving commercial self-driving cars from late this month.” Reports suggest that the country has established the legal foundation for…

  • “If your data protection or cybersecurity plan includes the use of the wrong VPN, you could be unwittingly putting yourself in a much worse position than if you had no protection plan at all. I believe bad cybersecurity is much worse than no cybersecurity at all, and the best intentions in the world can still…

  • Chris Andrews, head of risk solutions at Aviva, has confirmed that ‘escape of water’ claims “continue to be our highest frequency claim with steadily increasing costs.” However, Andrews added that fire brings with it the highest severity and claims cost. In fact, fire and ‘escape of water’ costs are not dissimilar. For this reason, Andrews…

  • Wi-Fi isn’t sufficiently secure for a number of applications, including water leak detection. A report published by Positive Technologies claims that, in 92% of cases, its researchers were able to externally penetrate 92% of companies’ internal networks in penetration tests conducted last year. The researchers also found that, at 87% of its tested clients: “Wi-Fi…

  • There is increasing interest among insurers in getting contractors as well as developers to buy in to the inclusion of leak detection systems in building projects. Intelligent Insurer reports. Published by Intelligent Insurer on 16th May 2019. Author: Graham Jarvis. Client: LeakSafe. 

  • “We need data to understand who’s responsible in the event of an accident,” he replies. The second challenge in his opinion is related to the first one because with the development of autonomous driving there needs to be an evolution of the regulatory framework to answer the liability question. “In a number of countries most…

  • The opening day’s theme revolved around a drive to use the vehicle data, Graham Jarvis reports This year’s Connected Car Insurance Europe opened for the first day with topical discussions about the future of the insurance industry, the need to use telematics data as the stepping to stone to this goal, how telematics can be…

  • The key challenge is to make the ‘KYC’ process more efficient to avoid false positives and false negatives by using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to automate the data analysis.

  • Consumer Preferences For Connected Car Insurance. Matthew Green, key account director, Consumer Intelligence gave a very thought-provoking presentation where began by revealing that 62% of 18-24 year olds don’t like the idea of being watched by telematics insurance. So what does the industry need to do change this viewpoint? Read more…